March 14, 2013

Here's a case of a wind strike pattern. Nothing too enlightening or complicated here, but sometimes we need to be reminded of the simple stuff!!

On December 10, 1965 a twenty
one-year-old female presented at the clinic. Yesterday she had contracted a
common cold manifesting with symptoms of headache, dizziness, sweating,
aversion to cold, weak pain in her shoulders and back, and a tight obstructive
pain in the left side of her neck on rotation towards the left. She had a thin
white tongue coating, and her pulse was floating and slightly rapid.

A floating, slightly rapid pulse,
thin-white tongue coat, aversion to cold, sweating, and headaches signify a Tài
Yáng wind strike pattern. Shoulder and back pain, and neck pain on left
rotation of the head signify a gé gēn tāng (Kudzu Decoction) pattern. The
dizziness indicates that the exterior has not yet been resolved, with upward
surging of qì.